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Jones is a great fighter. GSP is a great fighter. They're not the p4p kings. Aldo has been for a while in my opinion. I started to rank him higher than Anderson even before Anderson lost to Weidman. Aldo has a very comparable track record and title defenses, has beaten elite level fighters who dropped down a weight class (which none of the other guys have done), and unlike all of those guys, Aldo has the least amount of holes in his actual skillset. His striking, wrestling and BJJ are all great. His only knock has been cardio yet guys still pressuring him to 5 rounds ended up losing convincingly.

If every fighter was the same weight, I would easily put my money on Aldo to be the reigning champion.

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Jones is a great fighter. GSP is a great fighter. They're not the p4p kings. Aldo has been for a while in my opinion. I started to rank him higher than Anderson even before Anderson lost to Weidman. Aldo has a very comparable track record and title defenses, has beaten elite level fighters who dropped down a weight class (which none of the other guys have done), and unlike all of those guys, Aldo has the least amount of holes in his actual skillset. His striking, wrestling and BJJ are all great. His only knock has been cardio yet guys still pressuring him to 5 rounds ended up losing convincingly.

If every fighter was the same weight, I would easily put my money on Aldo to be the reigning champion.

Agreed. Aldo has been above those guys on my list for a while. I always had Aldo and Anderson at the top. Now that Anderson lost to Weidman, I have Aldo all alone.

what about when Aldo was almost finished by Hominick in their title fight and when people had him losing to Frankie? Just a question for discussion purposes. IMO Aldo has looked more beatable now then he has ever before.

Not sure who exactly had Frankie beating Aldo, and yea he had a terrible weight cut and lost the 5th and maybe the 4th round in that fight. But he has consistently beaten better competition the last 3 years than anybody else. Including guys who have moved down to his weight class. Which for me cements his P4P status.

Lets not forget about guys like Karo Paryisan, Frank Trigg, Jon Fitch, Josh Koscheck and Thiago Alves who were all Top 5 WWs when he fought them. I think people have just kind of looked past GSP recently because he has been so good for so long. Kind of like in the NBA when they use to hand out MVP awards to guys other than Michael Jordan because if they did it based on stats Jordan would win it every year for 5-6 years in a row. GSP is that good, he is the Michael Jordan of MMA and in a few years he will be crowned the greatest MMA fighter of all time without question if he is not already on that list.

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I'm a bit confused about the fight metric. If I remember correctly in the 4th it show sig strikes 88-18 in favor of Gus. I doubt Jones landed over 100 strikes in a little over a round, especially in his state (gassed).